Sara Schwartz
Associate Teaching Professor
Dr. Schwartz blends cross-disciplinary strategies from social work, anthropology and visual arts to understand and communicate about complex social justice issues.
Sara Schwartz
Associate Teaching Professor
Dr. Schwartz blends cross-disciplinary strategies from social work, anthropology and visual arts to understand and communicate about complex social justice issues.
Biography
Sara L. Schwartz is an associate teaching professor in the MSW and DSW programs. She approaches teaching and scholarship from a cross-disciplinary lens bridging social work, anthropology and visual arts. Professor Schwartz instructs students on social science methods for understanding complex social justice issues, community-based participatory research, program evaluation, policy, qualitative methods and visual social work. She is the faculty lead for the Visual Social Work Graduate Certificate which she launched in 2022.
Her scholarship focuses on aging with bleeding disorders, HIV/AIDS, historical trauma in diverse communities and visual social work. Professor Schwartz serves on the board of the directors of the National AIDS Memorial and is a co-producer of the annual Surviving Voices documentary films.
Media
Global Hemophilia Report podcast interview: Aging With HemophiliaSurviving Voices oral history project
Education
University of Southern California
MA, Visual Anthropology (expected 2024)
University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellowship 2009
Portland State University
PhD 2007
Virginia Commonwealth University
MSW 2001
University of Colorado
BA 1995
Area of Expertise
- Visual social work
- HIV/AIDS
- Aging with Hemophilia
- Program evaluation
- Qualitative inquiry
- Philanthropy
Industry Experience
- Non-Profit/Charitable
- Social Services
- Education/Learning
- Research
- Philanthropy
Affiliations
- HIV Story Project
- National AIDS Memorial
Articles & Publications
Schwartz, S.L., & Angulo, R.C. (2023). Visual social work. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods, Issues of Equity Chapter. [in press]
Strassman, J.A., Schwartz, S.L., Weiss, E.L., & Petrila, A. (2022). Everyone’s war becomes my war. Advances in Social Work, 22(1), doi: 10.108060/26263.
Parga, J., .Schwartz, S.L, & Reyes, M. (2022). Social work academia and COVID-19: The great equalizer. The International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education [Special Edition: Using Virtual Platforms to Provide Learning and Engagement Opportunities During a Pandemic],25(1), p. 4-16.
Schwartz, S.L., & Wiley, J.L. (2019). The person-in-the-virtual-environment: Building a diverse, engaged, and collaborative virtual faculty. In Maiden, R.P. (Ed) The Transformation of Social Work Education Through Virtual Education. Cambridge Scholars.